oxhide ingot

plural oxhide ingots

1. An ingot of copper or occasionally tin, cast in the shape of an oxhide, typically produced and traded during the Late Bronze Age.

   Many oxhide ingots, often inscribed with double axe and other Aegean scripts, have been found on the island, and smelting sites, together with many warrior figurines.

   1980, J. E. Dayton, “Geology, Archaeology and Trade”, in Jan G. P. Best, Nanny M. W. de Vries, editors, Interaction and Acculturation in the Mediterranean: Proceedings of the Second International Congress of Mediterranean Pre- and Protohistory, Amsterdam, 19-23 November 1980, B.R. Grüner, page 165